Brand-New Eye Shadow Palettes
New makeup is always a good thing, especially around the holidays when you're up for being a little more playful and festive with your beauty look. Just in time for your next event, these new-on-the-market eye shadow palettes are here to help!
Anastasia Beverly Hills Palette
This (sold-out) special-edition eye-shadow collection contains a range of highly-pigmented jewel and neutral-toned colors. It's ideal for everyday wear, but can be bummed up to create a more formal look, if you so choose.
Anastasia Beverly Hills Master Palette By Mario, $45
Urban Decay Palette
If you're not one for rules, this is your palette. The limited-edition set is organized by color family, creating a rainbow of shades, ranging from pinks, oranges, yellows, greens, blues, purples, and even white and black.
Lorac Palette
The third rendition of this best-selling palette has you covered with eight shimmer and eight matte shades. They're on the neutral side, so it's just what you're looking for to create that low-key holiday cocktail-hour look.
Lorac Pro Palette 3, $44
LANCÔME Palette
If you're more of a smokey-eye gal, this one's for you. With deep shades of blue, flecks of silver and green and enough shimmer to go around, all the attention will be on you.
LANCÔME Sonia Rykiel Collection Rive Gauche Maxi Palette, $60
Urban Decay Primer
But hold up! Your eye shadow is only as good as it lasts, and you know what that means...shadow primer is a must. To keep your sultry makeup in place all night, don't forget to prep!
JAPONESQUE Brush
When you're playing with a lot of colors, you need a lot of brushes. Enter: This professional one, which is ideal for creating definition at the crease. (You can even use it with cream shadows.)
E.L.F. Brush
To achieve an expertly-blended look, this brush's tapered tip works wonders.
LANCÔME Brush
When you really want that color to hold and go on dark, this high-quality natural bristle brush will pick up the pigment best.
NYX Brush
Blend baby, blend! This medium-sized shadow brush is good for layering shadows and perfecting your smokey eye.